Sure, chasing after a witch’s hoard sounds like it’s all fun and games when you’re a precocious schoolgirl. But you’re also likely to end up cursed to spend the rest of your adult life dodging spooks and weirdoes like a certain Blonde in a Red Dress who shall remain nameless (except for when she’s named Vicky.)

When it comes to live-action activities that may not fully translate into the static visual medium of comic books, an illusionist’s slight-of-hand stage performance should rank near the top of the list.

Not content to simply be typecast as a action/adventure damsel in distress, the Blonde in Red had her agent keep an eye out for more serious roles as well — even if it sometimes just ended up as a stern-faced cameo for a staring contest with “Doctor Bobbs”.

A flashback to our heroine’s early years in a British boarding school. A few schoolyard bullies were just a warmup for a girl who would later face down gangsters, wild animals, monsters, and mysterious giant flaming eyeballs.